Guild Wars 2

kubetz.3058:

Adamantium.3682:

This does look a whole lot more real than the elite skills we saw last week. If it is fake, sprinkling in some changes that have been confirmed was a nice touch.

Actually 1 elite from those patch notes leaked last week are also in these patch notes which surprised me a lot. I am talking about the necro one which was basically copy&pasted AFAIK.

I am not sure if it adds credibility to last week’s leak or make the current leak less believable.

That is strange. They’re not the only profession to lose an elite underwater, or even two. I wonder why it’s important for them to have a replacement but not, say, a Guardian or Thief.

I suspect it is a fix to the issue of someone taking a short dip and seeing their elite go on cooldown. With the other minion skills, you retain the minion if the skill is slotted both over and under water.

Had a run in with a wading pool in LA the other day while fighting a molten event. Just deep enough to trigger water combat. That would result in said elite going bye bye…

Good point, that makes sense. At some point I would like to see just as many underwater choices as we have on dry land, both utilities and elites. Even weapons someday.

Speaking of which I’m curious to see how harpoon gun auto attack feels with this change if it’s true. I’m not sure a 75% reduction is enough to make this sluggish skill feel normal, but I’m glad it is at least on their radar.

Update about the “leaked” patch notes:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/RE-Leaked-patch-notes